A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.